Cigar-moistener



(No Model.) I

G. A. ALLEN. GIGARAMOISTENER.

No. 406,076. Patented July 2, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. ALLEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CIGAR-MOISTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,076, dated July 2,1889.

Application filed March 1, 1889. Serial No. 301,620. (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in (.igar-Moisteners, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, that willenable others to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification.

The object of this invention is to prev. do an improved device forkeeping cigars and tobacco in a moist merchantable condition, as will behereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of an open cigar-box, showing therelative position of the nioistening device; Fig. 2, a longitudinalsection of the device proper embodying my improved features; Fig. 3, atransverse section; and Fig. I a broken-away side elevation, showing theinner wire-gauze tube partially withdrawn.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a box of cigars, showing themoistening device placed therein. The moistener consists of the outercylindrical tube B, inclosing the wire-gauze tube 0, loosely andreniovably inserted therein, as shown in Fig. 2. The tube B will becomposed ordinarily of sheet metal, which provided with numerousperforations a, and closed at each end by the removable caps a (0 Thetube 13 is also provided interiorly with the annular corrugations a,which prevent the gauze tube 0 from having positive contact with theinterior surface of the outer inclosing-tube, and leaves the annularspace a" between the two. The inner wire-gauze tube is provided at eachend with the gauze caps l) I), the cap I) being rigidly secured to thecap a of the outer tube, (see Fig. 2,) so that when the cap a is removedthe gauze tube is conveniently drawn out at the same time, asillustrated in Fig. 4-. The

gauze tube will be filled with a body of cotton d, or other suitableabsorbent material,

package in the required merchantable condition. The annular corrugationsin the outer tube prevent the close contact of the gauze tube, so thatthe water cannot escape in the form of drops, but only by the process ofevaporation, and thus the goods cannot be damaged by too mucll moisture.

The moistener will be arranged ordinarily in the package in the mannerillustrated in Fig. 1., the dimensions being such as to 0ceupy the spaceof about one cigar.

It is obvious, however, that the moistener may be constructed on a muchlarger scale and placed in the large cigar show-eases used in the retailtrade, thus dispensing with the necessity of having one of themoisteners in each small package.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cigar-moistener, the combination, with the outer perforated tubeprovided interiorly with annular corrugations, of the wire-gauze tuberemovably inserted in and inclosed by said outer tube, the gauze tubebeing filled with an absorbent material, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. In a cigar-inoistener, the combination, with the outer perforatedtube, provided interiorly with annular corrugations and capped or closedat both ends, of the wiregauze tube capped at one end, as described,

and loosely inserted in the outer tube, one

.end of the gauze tube being rigidly attached to the corresponding capend of the outer tube, so as to be removable therewith, substantiall yas and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES A. ALLEN.

\Vitncsses:

L. M. FREEMAN, L. B. COUPLAND.

